Helping the community is, and always has been, an important aspect of Herschel Girls’ School. The amount of community service and outreach activities, events, donations and drives has grown hugely over the years that the school has been operating.
In the early years of Herschel Girls’ school there was no specific outreach or interact programme, however there were several constant events that the girls took part in or supported. Every year around Easter time, the Herschel girls helped out at the Lady Buxton Home Fête, where they supplied tea and performed a small play to keep the guests entertained.
The causes that the school supported remained more or less the same throughout the first few decades of Herschel. For example, a donation of money, toys and clothes was given to the Athlone Blind School every year as well as a donation to the Princess Alice Home of Recovery. The girls also often helped out at the Animal Welfare Society’s fête as well as a fête at Rosebank to raise money for Child Welfare funds.
Outreach activities from the early years of Herschel Girls’ School pales in comparison to the large amount of outreach and community service that takes place in the present day. It is clear that the Outreach programme has grown and increased hugely up until the present day.
See Community Service and Outreach programme documents for the later decades for information on the growth of the outreach programmes.
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